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.su hopefully dies in the future. It is often used for cybercrime, neo-nazi websites and the russian controlled puppet government of certain russian controlled
by preisschild 2y ago
.su hopefully dies in the future. It is often used for cybercrime, neo-nazi websites and the russian controlled puppet government of certain russian controlled Ukrainian territories.
- hakfoo 2y agoI was always disappointed it didn't acquire a "regional" sort of appeal for businesses serving the CIS/former Soviet states, sort of like when they started to sell .eu domains towards an audience that wanted to imply "we're not just a .de or .fr company". Curious what the trade aspects are like-- I'd expect there's a lot of industrial commonality and shared inherited legal norms, so if you're already doing business in one former Soviet republic, is it comparatively easy to expand to others?
- Avamander 2y agoIt's actually kinda crazy that it has been kept. I personally think resolvers should not resolve that zone at all.
- cduzz 2y agoThe crazy thing is that there's a list of actually agreed-upon root name servers and they maintain a uniform namespace for the internet. I suspect the above statement isn't actually a true statement across the world, but at least for today the list of roots isn't generically ideological in the same way a broad set of "obvious truths" is now ideological.
- Avamander 2y agoYeah, with uniformly applied rules. Keeping .su is a violation of that and should be deprecated.
- tsimionescu 2y agoThe rule is uniformly applied: there is a corresponding ccTLD for, and only for, every two-letter country code in the ISO list. You can complain about who the ISO list assigns country codes for, but that's a completely separate issue.
- cduzz 2y agoOh, I'm referring to the list of root DNS servers. https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers
- Muromec 2y agoWait till you learn how russia kept the seat of ussr on the UN Security Council.
- diggan 2y agoI mean, the seat of USSR was given to the Russian Federation, as Russia is recognized as the continuation of the USSR, or do you mean something else?
- yard2010 2y agoTIL that the USSR had its own TLD. As a child, I always thought .su domains were specifically for warez uses.
- cedilla 2y agoThe GDR (East Germany) also had its own TLD, .dd (for Deutsche Demokratische Republik), but it was never operated in the global DNS and there were only like two registrations.
- jeroenhd 2y agoHey now, it's also popular for some kinds of piracy, it's not all hate crimes! Plus, I think there are a few pun-oriented domain names that use .su?